reprobate means rejected; cast off as worthless. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 72 out of 100.
reprobate is pronounced /ˈɹɛpɹəbət/.
Why “reprobate” is a great word
REPROBATE — [Adjective, Noun] Morally depraved and unprincipled; one who is so. From the Latin reprobatus, perfect passive participle of reprobare ("to disapprove, reject, condemn"), from re- ("back, again") + probare ("to test, approve"). First attested in English c. 1425. Unlike a "scoundrel," a figure of mere dishonor, or the state of being "depraved," a general corruption, "reprobate" carries the historical weight of a final verdict—of having been tested and found permanently wanting. It is the cold sneer of a man who cashes a widow's pension, the greasy wear of a gambler's playing cards, the defiant slouch of one who has heard the sentence and shrugged. This is a word not for the wicked alone, but for those officially, and irrevocably, cast adrift.
Etymology
First attested in c. 1425, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English reprobat(e) (“condemned, damned”, also used as the past participle of reprobaten), borrowed from Latin reprobātus (“disapproved, rejected, condemned”), perfect passive participle of reprobō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). The noun was derived from the adjective by substantivization, see -ate (noun-forming suffix).
adj
- Rejected; cast off as worthless.“Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the Lord hath rejected them.”
- Rejected by God; damned, sinful.
- Immoral, having no religious or principled character.“The reprobate criminal sneered at me.”
noun
- One rejected by God; a sinful person.“And the solitarines of man, which God had namely and principally orderd to prevent by mariage, hath no remedy, but lies under a worse condition then the loneliest single life; for in single life the absence and remotenes of a helper might inure him to expect his own comforts out of himselfe, or to seek with hope; but here the continuall sight of his deluded thoughts without cure, must needs be to ”
- A person with low morals or principles.“I acknowledge myself for a reprobate, a villain, a traitor to the king.”
verb
- To have strong disapproval of something; to reprove; to condemn.“Lord Rotheles allowed it was a very sufficient cause for returning soon, and reprobated all delays of letters, though he confessed to being a very idle correspondent;...”
- Of God: to abandon or reject, to deny eternal bliss.
- To refuse, set aside.